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Former MS Security Strategist Joins Mozilla

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jumping-the-fence dept.

Handset writes "Former Microsoft security strategist Window Snyder is joining Mozilla to lead the company's effort to protect its range of desktop applications from malicious hacker attacks. eweek.com reports that Snyder, who was responsible for security sign-off for Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003, will spearhead Mozilla's security strategy and improve its communications with external hackers and bug finders."

8 of 248 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Are you sure? by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 0, Informative

    Somebody needs to call the phone numbers on his resume.

    Window Snyder is a woman.

  2. Ahem.... Window is a gal by rsborg · · Score: 2, Informative
    And she's pretty hot.

    Er, eh, not that influences my perception of her value to the Mozilla corp at all...

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    1. Re:Ahem.... Window is a gal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      She doesn't seem to be a Windows fan either. Proof:
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/windowsnyder/58200550 /
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/windowsnyder/43132485 /

  3. Re:I can't wait to see this thread... by Moofie · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is gonna totally blow your mind, but....here goes.

    Two different people might have two different opinions.

    [neo]WHOA![/neo]

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  4. Re:Window Snyder? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Window Snyder is a woman.

    http://www.dec.net/ws/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/windowsnyder/

  5. Re:As long as she replaces the useless Asa Dotzler by Kymermosst · · Score: 2, Informative

    A few points:

    (1) Shit happens, including regressions. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it should have been caught. Nonetheless, shit happens.
    (2) It's none of your business who was responsible. Are you some kind of stalker?
    (3) The Mozilla team can handle their own internal affairs just fine, I imagine.
    (4) You can always not use Mozilla products.
    (5) I'm pretty sure I've been trolled, but what the hell, I haven't responded to a troll for a while. Then again, I haven't trolled for a while, either:
    (6) Does having Snyder mean we'll see a need for Symantec, McAfee, etc. products for Mozilla just to keep the malware away? That's what we need for Microsoft products...

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  6. Re:First Of All, Congrats by x-caiver · · Score: 4, Informative

    Window didn't just leave Microsoft to join Mozilla, she actually left awhile back to be one of the co-founders of Matasano Security, http://www.matasano.com/. Founding a company is a good reason to leave a company ;) She did a great job at Microsoft, and I'm sure she is going to do a great job at Mozilla.

  7. Re:I can't wait to see this thread... by pookemon · · Score: 3, Informative

    We do sometimes diasgree with each other!

    No we don't.

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